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That is true, but Croatia is the first in the ranking of third placed teams. You have 12 point and a +9 gd, behind you is Ukraine with 12 points and and +8 gd, Albania, Hungary with 11 points and Russia with 10. That's just to walk straight into the Championship. But you are assured 100% to have play offs in case something goes wrong in the remaining two games. I'm sure we'll see you there in 1 year good luck!

Absolutely agree, however the matter that generated my post was another: "Hazard hides on the big occasions"

http://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/2015/9/7/9271259/euro-2016-qualifying-hazard-scores-late-winner-for-subpar-belgium "Why haven't we seen the Belgium we were expecting?" "Because that team is imaginary?" Made me laugh Also Iceland qualified for the first time in history. Czech Republic qualified as well. Italy top goalscorer is Chiellini with a whopping 2 goals.

He carried us in the second half of last season. So...well.....I'll leave it at that.

Silly De Rossi. Won 1-0 with a penalty, first of the group right now and unbeaten. I still despise Conte.

I agree, i can see this Belgium generation doing an England. They have really good players, but i can't see them winning anything, unless they change their group mentality and coach.

Want to talk about Italy glorious 1-0 win against Malta? Let's see how it goes tonight, maybe this time we can get humiliated in the group stage just like in the WC.

this last page was hilarious to read

As much as i love Diego, i Would love to have a prime Drogba back in our team. Iconic player. Edit: i was reading the first few pages of the topic it made me smile.

Well, our two previous CL finals were in the year of the european championship as well 2008-2012-????

Some article, somewhere, maybe even on this forum, mentioned that Everton told Chelsea a bid of 36 would have sealed the deal. However Everton then refused to sell.

let's start bidding again at 20m and then we go up by 5m with each new bid. That will work.

That could be seen last season: Costa: 20 in 24/2 Lukaku: 10 in 32/4

Never liked Lukaku, too much of a prima donna for my taste. Vastly prefer Diego to him.

If our defenders are going to concede 2-3 goals against the attacking prowess of Dynamo and Maccabi, they should be ashamed of themselves and i'll join the chorus right away. Until then, i think we are fine, and i hope to see Traoré and Kenedy in matchday 5 and 6.

at this rate we're going to loan out Mourinho and Abramovic really soon. We're going to loan out Stamford the lion also.

that gazzetta link is probably bs. They're just trying to induce Juventus fan to self fellatio, making them believe their team is somewhat relevant and capable to keep players.

I agree with most of that post, however, here's what i'd change: I would swap Ramires with Willian, and Willian with Oscar. Oscar takes Hazard spot, Hazard again o nthe left and Pedro back to the right. like this: Diego Hazard Oscar Pedro Fabregas Matic Willian If we'd play possession football, would be equally important to press high up the pitch to stop attacks way before they reach the defence (when possible) Oscar would be instrumental in that, and Willian would be a better option if we would want to start a counter attack while defending the left side. Our left side would be weaker in defence, with Hazard and Fabregas there, so maybe when we are defending there, Willian could swap position with Fabregas and in this case Fabregas would have to start the counter. Also the most important mistake you made, that should be punished without mercy: Azpi is 28 not 3

i aplogize for his behavior. I assure not all italians are like him

Rather see him out of the CL squad than Traoré and Kenedy.

please José, this kid has to get that chance. He could be a massive player for us in the future.

well, i'd take those stats as truth if we'd be playing the same opposition as atletico, and the NT played less games. However i agree, our defence, even last season was worse than atletico's.

Not hard to imagine why the motivation went down

I would like to see the following given a chance in our team: Solanke, maybe in two or three years after he gains enough experience. The love child of Ballack and Lamps, Pasalic, i would really love for him to be with us next season, he is going to be a really good player in the future. Baker and Boga, same reasoning that i did with Solanke. I would really love to see Aké here, but i don't understand why we sent him on loan this season after being with us last season. All others will probably not make it here.

Because we're not even using Musonda properly. He didn't go out on loan, so i'm looking forward to seeing him in the league cup. I hope.